We have worms crawling on the WEB! Well, not really, but you can read about
Vermicomposting in the classroom.
Our first grade class is concerned about the
earth. We want to help our planet by reducing the garbage created at school.
One way to reduce trash is to recycle. Another way is to help compost
biodegradable material. In our first grade class at Delmar Elementary in
Delmar, MD we are vermicomposting.
In the classroom we keep a bin with
dirt, newspaper, and worms. (red- wigglers to be specific). After lunch we
collect our leftover biodegradable food and bury it in our worm bin. Each day
we check the worms and we can see that they are turning our leftovers into
good soil. This spring we will put the soil and worms in a small graden that
we planted last spring. (This was started to prevent soil erosion and runoff,
but that's a different story.) The children enjoy learning about worms and
everyone loves how we are helping the earth!
Amy Crouse
acrouse@www.wicomico.k12.md.us
First Grade Teacher
Delmar Elementary School
WORM INFORMATION:
I purchased my worm bin and worms from
Flowerfield Enterprises
10332 Shaver Road
Kalamazoo, MI 49024
Read what the children have to say about it...
Our Worms are skinny. They crawl. How do they climb under dirt? They eat the food and the food turns into soil again. We have a garden outside and we will put the worms in the garden.
joey
Worms can get fat. If we don't want something to eat we give it to them and
they eat it in the box. We put bread and apple cores in their box. Mrs.
Crouse put her coffee grinds in it, We don't have to feed them everyday.
maribeth
How do worms wiggle and how do they eat food? We feed them our left over lunch. compost box. Some of the worms got out of the box. They died.
james
Our worms eat food that we put in the compost box. Some worms came out of the
box and they died. We will put them in the garden when they get bigger.
danielle
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